Artlink

One week away from the opening of our Members’ Showcase! Join us Thursday, June 18 from 5-8PM!

Our beloved Annual Members’ Showcase celebrates the individual artists that make Artlink possible through their membership and support. We have over 200 local artists participating, with artworks ranging across all mediums and styles!

Feel free to bring your friends and family, all ages are welcome and there is no cost to attend. There will be light food, a cash bar, and plenty of incredible artwork to see!

People’s Choice Award
This year we will open voting for a People’s Choice Award, where one artist will win a free year of Artlink membership and a $200 award! Voting will be available June 18 - July 17 to visitors of the exhibition, with the winner announced at our Annual Members’ Meeting at 5PM on July 19.

Solo Exhibition Award
Every year our Artlink Artist Panel selects one artist from the Members’ Showcase to have a solo exhibition the following spring. This award will be announced at the opening reception!

Raffle
We have raffle tickets available to purchase starting at our opening reception and throughout the run of the Members’ Showcase! There are three fun prize packages you could win, including Zoo Tickets & Halls gift certificate, Tin Caps tickets & Proximo gift certificate, or an Artlink Membership & Kreative Framing gift certificate!

Five days left to enter either of our two upcoming juried exhibitions, Lucent and Mirroring Reality!

$12 per entry, entries submitted online only. Learn more at artlinkfw.org/calls-for-entry and apply to either exhibition by June 15! The selected artworks will be on view at Artlink July 30 - August 23, 2026.

Lucent: The Art of Light
This juried exhibition is open to light-focused works of all media and can be interpreted broadly—from work that depicts light, to work which emits light itself.

In the words of James Turrell, “light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.”

Mirroring Reality: Realism Today
This call for entry invites artists practicing Realism, Photorealism, and Hyperrealism. Open to all media, this exhibition will highlight diverse interpretations of Contemporary Realism and explore how artists mirror, challenge, and reconstruct reality through representational imagery.

Featured artworks by Frank Geiser and Mayuko Ono Gray

Every year, one talented artist is selected out of the Members’ Showcase by our Artist Panel for a solo exhibition the following spring. Our current exhibition, Memories of Water by Katherine Kratzer, was last year’s choice. Here are some glimpses of the previous few years of solo award winners and their fantastic exhibitions they had, including Matt Plett, Hanna Burnworth, Erin Patton McFarren, and Norman Ziolkowski!

If you’re interested in a chance to win this award, you only have until next weekend (June 7) to enter the Members’ Showcase!

See the calls for entry page on our website (artlinkfw.org) for more info on entering.

Only this week and next left to enter our Members’ Showcase! 🚨 Drop off a work Thursday - Sunday during our business hours and by June 7 at the latest!

If you’re interested in exhibiting your work in a gallery, whether it be for the 100th time or the first time ever, our Members’ Showcase is a fun opportunity for artists at any level of their career!

This beloved exhibition usually has over 230 artists that participate, making it our most varied exhibit and most popular reception of the year!

All mediums are welcome, including painting, photography, sculpture, ceramic, installation, woodworking, metals, drawing, collage, video, and mixed media! This exhibition offers our community the unique chance to see a wide array of the diverse and talented local artists that Fort Wayne has to offer.

Eligibility
To submit an artwork into our 48th Members’ Showcase, you will need to be 18+ years of age and a current Artlink member at the time of artwork drop-off. Membership is $35 and year and can be purchased or renewed at that time

Entry fee: $10

Entry window: May 7 - June 7.

Size limit: 36” in any direction, frame included, no exceptions.

For more details see the calls for entry page at artlinkfw.org